I'm from UK, working for an employer and looking for some guide regarding self-employment issue.

I design furnitures as a hobby and thinking about setting up a website to put pictures of my designs and of course would welcome anyone that is interested in my idea.

Will this be considered as online business? I am not going to set up an eshop on my website.

Or does this fall under the self-employment category?

The thing is I am not going to make this main source of income. Its just a hobby and I would like to share with everyone. Should people be interested with it, then perhaps maybe one day I will do it as a side income.

Setting up a website isn't a commercial activity in itself. If you are inviting people to enter into a business-customer relationship then it becomes a business. If you put ads on it and earn income from those ads it becomes "business" income and is something you have to declare for tax purposes.

You don't need to worry until you start making money. You could probably skim through the HM Revenue guides on self employment for more information (google "HM Revenue self employment")_________________Master Employment Jobs Search. Connecting highly skilled young professionals with recruiters world wide.

Yep thats self employment, as long as you incur all the costs of making your products and get all the profit. Whilst you are starting up you may want to look at Tax Credits that will take your self employed work into account, you may get some help setting up the business in your first year.

Well I do agree with Smooth in his comment but why you don't turn this hobby into a real business. Specially if you have a unique idea and you are that skillful.

Setting up this website will be beneficial anyhow as if it is not going to be an online business, it is going to be a means for millions of people getting to know about you and your activity from all over the world through search engines.